009 | Video

[second_first]

[Rei is sitting on her bed with her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around her legs. The room is dimly lit except for light coming through a thin crack in her curtains. Her face is turned away from the camera as she looks out through the space in the curtains. The bandages she had been sporting as she moved through people's dreams are absent in reality, though there is mottled bruising on her forearms.]

So that is dreaming.

[She's silent and unmoving for several long moments.]

A waste of time.

[She goes back to staring out the window. The feed times out.]

Comments

[second-first.livejournal.com]

No. The angels are non-human, living, organic beings.

Like Eva.

["Like me."]

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

I see. [Taking mental notes]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Do you understand?

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

I don't know entirely, but I have some vague notion now.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Evas are god created by man.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Literally, or are you just saying their very powerful?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Does it make a difference?

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

A god implies a moral authority.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

No. Just a being more powerful than man.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

That makes it a powerful being, it doesn't imply a god.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Did god come first or did man?

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Who knows?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

If man created god, then why can't Eva be a god?

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

How do you define god? If man created Eva, doesn't that make humans it's god?

To answer your question, we will always say god did. God would remember, and if it was man, those humans would have died of old age by now, leaving only god to write his own story.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She's silent for a moment, in acknowledgment of the point he's made.]

God or not, Eva is not human.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Neither is a mouse.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Eva is not made of the same kind of matter as other organic creatures.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Neither is an alter. Many people here are not human.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Then you understand.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

I do not consider anyone here a god.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

No one here is.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

And many here are not human, so non-human is not the defining characteristic of god.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

The rules of my world don't apply to this one.

[calculatedfire.livejournal.com]

Overall, a lion or a bear is physically stronger than a human, a turtle and a clam both love longer. Those are all non-human, and none of them are gods.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I'm not wrong.